noun:

• winning without fighting; method used to win without fighting - four character idiom
• one's own way of doing things (i.e. as different from that of one's instructor)
• Shinto-ryu (school of kenjutsu) - colloquialism ➜ 新当流

noun:

• shrine ritual held with the first two months of the year to forecast (or pray for) a successful harvest
• seasonal planting of rice on a field affiliated with a shrine

noun:

• women's New Year (15th day of the first month of the year); New Year for women who were too busy to celebrate on the 1st (Kyoto-Osaka) ➜ 小正月

noun:

• monkey (esp. the Japanese macaque, Macaca fuscata); ape; non-human primate ➜ ニホンザル
• sly person - derogatory term
• idiot; hick - derogatory term
• sliding wooden bolt (for holding a door or window shut)
• clasp used to control the height of a pot-hook ➜ 自在鉤
• bathhouse prostitute - archaism ➜ 湯女

noun:

• arraying a number of reference books in order to compose poetry; literary composition crammed with maxims, ancient episodes, legends, etc.
• otters lining a catch of fish on a river bank; (people) making offerings (esp. of fish) - orig. meaning

noun:

• anchor (of a ship) ➜ 錨【いかり】
• last runner or swimmer in a relay team
• news anchor; news presenter - abbreviation ➜ アンカーマン
• anchor (clock component); pallet fork ➜ アンクル
• anchor (HTML) - IT term
• link to previous post (e.g. in web forums) - IT term ➜ レスアンカー

noun:

• the best one can do; one's best effort

adverbial noun:

• with all one's might; to the best of one's ability

expression / adjective:

• feel compelled to; can't help but feel; can't help but do - after neg. verb stem ➜ ないではいられない

expression / adjective:

• feel compelled to; can't help but feel; can't help but do ➜ ずにはいられない

noun:

• determining a speaker's true or hidden meaning; determining a speaker's intentions from his manner of speech - esp. 口裏
• divining good or bad luck from listening to someone - esp. 口占 - archaism

noun:

• ceremony performed by a sorcerer to protect a noble setting out on a trip
• walking in large steps
• walking with a disabled leg; someone with a disabled leg

noun:

• water monitor (Varanus salvator, species of carnivorous monitor lizard common from Sri Lanka in the west to the Philippines in the east); common water monitor

expression / noun:

• changing seasons; season's transition; transition from one season to the next; turn of the seasons; turning of the seasons ➜ 移り変わり【うつりかわり】

expression:

• the eyes are the windows to the soul; the eye is the lamp of the body; the eyes are the mirror of the heart [literal] - proverb

noun:

• food set out on a stand; gift placed on a stand
• food brought on a large stand to a brothel by a red-light district caterer - archaism

noun:

• universe - Buddhism term
• realm of thought - Buddhism term
• underlying principle of reality; manifestation of true thusness - Buddhism term
• being jealous of things that have nothing to do with one; being jealous of others who are in love with each other ［ほうかい］ - abbreviation ➜ 法界悋気

noun:

• shrine ritual held with the first two months of the year to forecast (or pray for) a successful harvest
• seasonal planting of rice on a field affiliated with a shrine

expression / adverb:

• just like that; in the twinkling of an eye; in the blink of an eye; in the time it takes to say "ah!" [literal]

noun:

• sumo management stock; one of the 105 titled trusteeships in the Japan Sumo Association; tradable share that entitles the holder to take part in the management of sumo - Sumo term

noun:

• sohal surgeonfish (Acanthurus sohal, species of tang found from the Red Sea to the Persian Gulf); Red Sea surgeonfish; sohal tang

noun:

• dulce de leche; dessert created by heating sweetened milk to caramelize its sugar - From Spanish

noun:

• blue dragon ➜ 青竜
• Azure Dragon (god said to rule over the eastern heavens) ➜ 青竜
• seven mansions (Chinese constellations) of the eastern heavens - Astronomy term ➜ 二十八宿
• large horse with a bluish-leaden coat
• shape of an old pine tree

noun:

• salary supplement, e.g. for work performed at inconvenient times or as overtime allowance usually for so-called exempt workers, i.e. workers who are expected to work a certain number of overtime hours ➜ 割増賃金

expression:

• he has not lived that lives not after death; the great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it; tigers leave their hide when they die; men leave their name [literal] - proverb

noun / ~する noun:

• breaking ground; ground-breaking (ceremony)

noun:

• New Year's ceremony in which a hoe is used to break ground in a field lying in a lucky direction